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Schoolchildren Ahead (US Highway 395, Southern California)

You see the strangest things in America when you’re just driving through — or at least they’re strange if you’re some sort of Anglo-Australian like me, anyway. I took this one last year on my way up US 395 from Barstow, California, to Bishop, California (two poles of my Californian desert experience).

Guns are one of those subjects foreigners (even a foreigner like me who is necessarily gun-savvy as a result of working on rural properties in an earlier life) learn never to bring up or discuss in America; the differences between sensibilities on guns is just too great in most cases. But they’re such a part of life here I barely blanch any more when I see something like this.